TIL 508: Implications of Common Grace (feat. Marshall Adkins)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
1. What is a biblical definition of and exegises for the doctrine of common grace?
2. What are the current discussions happening within biblical counseling concerning common grace?
3. What are some of the implications considering common grace for biblical counseling?
4. How do we consider the rationality of the unbeliever?
5. How should we be cautious when considering thoeries and methodologies?
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| 0:00.0 | Implications of common grace on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.8 | This week on the podcast, I have with me, Marshall Adkins. |
| 0:23.9 | He serves as assistant professor of biblical counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 0:29.8 | And he's also ACBC certified. |
| 0:31.8 | He's married to Rachel, and they have three children. |
| 0:35.1 | Marshall, I'm very interested in talking about this subject today with the |
| 0:38.9 | thoughts of common grace that are floating around everywhere today. And you're actually working on |
| 0:43.4 | a dissertation currently that dives into this subject quite a bit. And I'm looking forward to how |
| 0:48.0 | we're going to talk about this idea of common grace today. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks, |
| 0:51.6 | Dale. I'm glad to be on. Now, I want to start in a proper place, |
| 0:54.8 | and this is, this is a point that needs to be clarified at the very outset when we talk about |
| 0:59.7 | definition of common grace. When people use that term, we're not always talking about exactly the |
| 1:04.4 | same thing. So it's important that each person that talks about this start with a definition. |
| 1:08.6 | I think that's an appropriate place to start if you can, Marshall. So let's start with a definition and then also provide really an exegetical, |
| 1:16.5 | biblical basis of what common grace actually is and where we see it from in the scriptures. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, maybe a place we could start would be Psalm 145, verse 9, where the Bible says, the Lord is good to all, and his mercy is |
| 1:31.3 | over all that he is made. So when we're talking about the doctrine of common grace, we're |
| 1:36.3 | talking about God's mercy, his kindness toward all people. And there are a number of things |
| 1:44.1 | that common grace includes. So first we could |
| 1:48.4 | identify that common grace, God's mercy toward all, includes the delay of his final judgment. |
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